YouTube embraces Creative Commons licensing, turns your cutesy kitty into mashup fodder

Sourcing material from the mecca of viral video has always been just a little iffy — who knows which rabid Beyonce fan will bite back while you slice and dice their Single Ladies tribute video . However, YouTube’s recent addition of the Creative Commons licensing option just made it an awful lot easier to make mashups without stepping on anyone’s stiletto-sporting toes. Users at the moment are given the choice to choose from YouTube’s standard license or the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which, when selected, automatically adds the video to a library of similarly appointed videos, now available on your cutting and captioning pleasure. An attribution is placed beneath any video sourcing material from the Creative Commons library. Most of the more professional outfits adding their videos to the CC pool are Al Jazeera and C-SPAN — who’s able to see Mittens the Kitten and Sarah Palin battle it out over tax cuts? Now you can access the Creative Commons library during the YouTube video editor .

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